Market Cross, Grade I listed market cross in Barnard Castle, England.
The octagonal stone structure features a Tuscan colonnade with arched openings on the ground floor and alternating Venetian windows on the upper level.
Thomas Breaks, a wool merchant, funded the construction of this building in 1747 to provide a sheltered marketplace for local farmers' wives.
The Market Cross has evolved from its initial purpose, serving as a courthouse, fire station, jail, dairy market, and town hall throughout centuries.
Located at the junction of The Bank, Newgate, and Market Place, the building contains Lord Barnard's crest and a hand-painted stone panel inscription.
The weather vane displays two small holes from an 1804 shooting contest between a Teesdale Legion soldier and a Streatlam Castle gamekeeper.
Location: Barnard Castle
GPS coordinates: 54.54220,-1.92374
Latest update: March 11, 2025 10:42
Barnard Castle
222 m
Church of St Mary
71 m
Barnard Castle Bridge
233 m
The White Swan Public House And Swan Cottage
250 m
Post Office Post Office And Brampton House
320 m
Former Mill To Rear Of Number 22
222 m
Hopper Tomb Approximately 2 Metres South Of Church Of St Mary
73 m
Thorngate Footbridge
373 m
The Vicarage And Glebe Cottage
364 m
The Old Well
79 m
21, Galgate
312 m
24, The Bank
91 m
14 (Left Part), Market Place
39 m
41, Newgate
255 m
South Boundary Wall To Grounds Of Bowes Museum And Church Of St Mary
373 m
6, 6A And 6B, Galgate
321 m
Former Stable, Outbuildings And Walls To The Vicarage And Glebe Cottage
342 m
Milestone At Nz 0484 1631
171 m
Pant
316 m
Walls To The Vicarage And Glebe Cottage
393 m
60, Newgate
281 m
Garden Walls To East Of Numbers 64 And 66, Spring Grove Garden Walls To Spring Grove, Newgate
324 m
Blagraves
112 m
Walls Around Spring Lodge Garden
398 m
2 And 4, Market Place
16 m
31, 31A And 31B, Horse Market
247 m
31, Galgate
326 m
34, The Bank
124 mReviews
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